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2010-04-29T05:00:39-04:00

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Arizona vs. illegal aliens

Last updated on: April 29, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Arizona has passed a law cracking down on illegal immigrants, seeking them out and sending them back. Now the state is being vilified, condemned by Democrats like President Obama as well as Republicans like Tom Ridge. The state of California is threatening to boycott all Arizona products, though some states like Texas are reportedly considering similar action. See, for example, Tom Ridge Criticizes Arizona Immigration Bill – ABC News and this. What do you think? Is the Arizona law needlessly heartless?... Read more

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2010-04-28T06:00:40-04:00

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The Voice of China

Last updated on: April 28, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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During the Cold War, the USA started media ventures such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America to broadcast an American view of the world to countries behind the Iron Curtain. Now still-communist China is doing the same thing, Already China has a huge TV and radio presence in Third World countries. And now the burgeoning superpower is broadcasting English-language programming here in America. Cruise southeast out of Houston, past the NASA exits and toward the Gulf of Mexico,... Read more

2010-04-28T05:30:44-04:00

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Progressive educational theory fails again

Last updated on: April 28, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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For the problems in America’s schools, I do not blame the students, or their parents, or even the culture. I blame university education departments. They constantly spin our theories and turn out teachers trained in implementing them. But they tend to be oblivious that many of these theories do not work. Case in point: It sounded like a great idea: Stanford education professors would create a model school to show how to educate low-income Hispanic and black students. Or, as... Read more

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2010-04-28T05:00:38-04:00

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Iraqi Christians erect statue of Jesus

Last updated on: April 28, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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How about this for a defiant, death-defying public confession of faith? The Christians of northern Iraq have chosen to defy mounting attacks by extremists by erecting a statue of Jesus modelled on the giant Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. The sculpture is only a tenth of the size of the 40-metre (130-foot) iconic statue that towers over the Brazilian city, but it has become a popular site for visitors in Hamdaniya, the north’s largest Christian town. “The idea... Read more

2010-04-27T06:00:24-04:00

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The Spirit of Antichrist

Last updated on: April 27, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Swedish dissident pastor Fredrik Sidenvall’s paper on “Confessing the Faith in an Anti-Christian Culture,” which was delivered on his behalf at the recent Congress on the Lutheran Confessions in Minneapolis offered a fascinating Biblical and Confessional study of what is meant by “Antichrist.” In Lutheran usage, it is not some political figure who seizes power before the last days, such as End Times enthusiasts are always trying to identify. Though the last days will indeed involve the reign of... Read more

2010-04-27T05:30:43-04:00

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Why do Republicans oppose the financial reform bill?

Last updated on: April 27, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Someone asked me that question today. Is it just the current political climate? Don’t shady practices interfere with the free market system? After all, the stock market has regulations to make sure it operates as it should. Why shouldn’t we regulate these other financial markets that, when they go wrong, mess up the entire economy? Are Republicans in the pocket of the big investment banks? Could someone explain? (Don’t look at me to do it. This English major thinks “derivative”... Read more

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2010-04-27T05:00:34-04:00

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Scientists on aliens & things beyond our ken

Last updated on: April 27, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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What is significant in this story is not that super-scientist Stephen Hawkings now believes in aliens–and warns us not to go looking for them–but the statement by the astronomer royal: The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact. The suggestions come... Read more

2010-04-26T06:00:01-04:00

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The ultimate persecution

Last updated on: April 26, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I was at the Congress on the Lutheran Confessions in Minneapolis last week, giving a paper on how those confessions teach the doctrine of vocation. I had to zip in and out, missing most of the conference (though it did prevent me from posting anything on Friday). Still, I did get to hear a paper by Rev. Fredrik Sidenvall of Gothenburg, Sweden, entitled “Confessing the Faith in an anti-Christian Culture.” It was about the woeful state of Christianity in Sweden,... Read more

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2010-04-26T05:30:25-04:00

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Did Porn Cause the Financial Crisis?

Last updated on: April 26, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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That is the headline in an article in “The Atlantic”: The above headline might seem like a joke. It isn’t. Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were surfing Internet pornography when they should have been policing the financial system. A deeply disturbing SEC memo to Senator Chuck Grassley R-IA exposing this problem was reported Thursday night by ABC News. Here are some highlights via the Associated Press: _A senior attorney at the SECs Washington headquarters spent up to... Read more

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2010-04-26T05:00:17-04:00

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Oklahoma sports

Last updated on: April 26, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Oklahoma Sooners, from my alma mater, had a miserable season last year by the standards of the University of Oklahoma, an 8-5 record. And yet my home state just dominated the NFL draft. Not only was OU quarterback Sam Bradford, who sat out most of last season because of injury, the number one pick. Six players from the state of Oklahoma were chosen in the first round. The most players from Oklahoma colleges previously chosen in the first round... Read more

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